Infosys announces new partnerships with Microsoft, Hitachi and Huawei

BANGALORE: Infosys has announced new partnerships with Microsoft, Hitachi Data Systems and Huawei to deepen its product offerings in new disruptive areas, including cloud and big data analytics, communication, infrastructure and data centre transformation segments.

The country’s second largest software exporter, which is already is a systems integration partner of Microsoft, will now establish a global ‘centre of excellence’ for Microsoft Azure Machine Learning that will train over 1,000 engineers by the end of fiscal year 2015, it said in a statement on Thursday.

Infosys’ partnership with HDS, a subsidiary of Japan’s Hitachi, will offer enterprises infrastructure and data centre transformation solutions, and will also set up a centre of excellence for 'pay-per-use' solutions, the statement said.

The company’s engagement with Huawei is to help the Chinese firm expand its solutions in cloud, big data and communication space.